I know sublime text is not open source and its not free either. But most people still use the unpaid version, so how does sublime text support itself ?
Who said most people still use the unpaid version?<p>Tons of people (from forums etc) use v3, which means they paid for v2 (or pirated it). I have paid for v2 and use v3 myself.<p>He also hired an extra guy during v2 development, which means he made enough money to have that. And in general, it's a hugely succesful project with Windows and OS X users.<p>If John saw that the unpaid version was an issue, he'd just cancel it.
> most people still use the unpaid version [citation needed]<p>Sublime text v3 requires a license to work. Unpaid version means you have to use older software <i>and</i> to suffer frequent popups.